SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 133, 2 December 1926, Page 4

SCIENCE AND RELIGION

""-ESSENTIALLY.. At ONE

LATE DR. AD AMI'S CONVICTION.

(JFrvm Oar Own CorrMponiUnt.) ' LONDON, Bth October. A paper on "The Eternal Spirit in rNature," written by Dr. George Adami just before his death, was read at the Church Congress at Southpprt. ■ Dr. Adami, the well-known cancer expert, was Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University, and a famous scientist and scholar. The paper had been finished' .by. his, widow, who was .among, those ,' *rtib- heard it read. The object of the paper (wrote Dr. Adami) was to demonstrate' .that, contrary to the Reaching tffcjthe marketplace, science arid" religion -were essentially at one as regarded the greater things. That oneness was by no moans! universally admitted by leaders in the world of;'-science. Pasteup never once' in his writings referred ' to matters spiritual, and .thfe reason given. by ; Bonxj Paßtenr's first lieutenant, was' that the famous scientist regarded it an impiety to seek to explain the "spiritual life in the terms of the material lif*. "The man of religion and the student of science were equally seekers after truth. My part has been to show,?' Dr. Adami' continued, "that the methods of science and religion are identical. "1 want to make it clear that the j scientist :may come to a clear knowledge of religious truth by the very methods that he has employed at his own. work. Han's faith is not built up"on reason but upon conviction, and that conviction may rise from a series of assumptions, accepted as in the case of. natural laws. The .more the student of science ponders upon the work of the eternal spirit, the more, in. my opinion, will he be thrust back upon the life of Christ as the eternal expression of that* spirit, and, conversely, if he dares to build in religion as he does in science he. will find that he will grow into^eVer-wifler knowledge of spiritual truth -more';and moTe. As the years have passed, I become convinced that the love of God is everything, and that if a man possesses this all other things are secondary." At the conclusion of the address there was a loud outburst of cheering. ■